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KLADNO
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KLADNO , a See also: mining See also: town of Bohemia, See also: Austria, 18 m
.
W.N.W. of See also: Prague by See also: rail
.
Pop
.
(1900), 18,600, mostly See also: Czech
.
It is situated in a region very See also: rich in iron-mines and See also: coal-See also: fields and possesses some of the largest iron and See also: steel See also: works in Bohemia
.
Near it is the mining town of Buschtehrad (pop
.
3510), situated in the centre of very extensive coal-fields
.
Buschtehrad was originally the name of the See also: castle only
.
This was from the 15th century to 163o the See also: property of the lords of Kolovrat, and came by devious See also: inheritance through the See also: grand-See also: dukes of See also: Tuscany, to the emperor See also: Francis See also: Joseph
.
The name Buschtehrad was first given to the railway, and then to the town, which had been called Buckow since its foundation in 1700
.
There is another castle of Buschtehrad near Hoi-ic
.
Kladno, which for centuries had been a See also: village of no importance, was sold in 1705 by the grand-duchess Anna Maria of Tuscany to the cloister in
Biewnow, to which it still belongs
.
The mining industry began in 1842 . |
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